Elliott Sterling

Hi all. I'm the maker behind OneRep, launching here shortly, and since this is a discussion post I thought I'd talk about me rather than the app.

I started programming in 2017. My mother taught me C, which is a strange first language to hand a kid, and I'm glad she did. For years after that it stayed a hobby: things I built for myself and never showed anyone. I'm in my final year of school now and drifting toward surgery, and OneRep is the first thing I've built that other people actually use (or so I hope haha).

I built it because I lift and I was running two apps that didn't know about each other. My lifting app had no idea what I'd eaten, my food app had no idea I'd trained, and I was doing the joining in my head. That's a boring reason to build something, but it's the honest one.

The whole thing is solo: the tracker, the offline sync across phone and laptop, the AI layer. The bit I've learned most from is the last one, mostly through getting it wrong. My first version had the assistant volunteering things and it was insufferable. Now it does nothing unless asked, because most sessions are someone logging three sets and leaving. Restraint turned out to be harder to build than capability.

Hello,
A year ago, I traded my 9-to-5 software engineering job for a 5-to-9 start-up routine. So far, I've built GoModel (launching soon here) and this product consumes 100% of my time.
In the past I worked for many companies as a software engineer. Some of them are Sabre, WorldRemit and GPC.
Recently, I've been exploring ways to optimize AI requests/prompts/workflows to save money (prompt compression, intelligent/smart routing, semantic caching etc).
A few months ago I was at Tech Week in Boston and New York and I love this initiative. I'm planning my trip to Tech Week in SF and LA in October. Who is coming there?

I'm Philips, and I built Petmatch after running into a problem that turned out to be way more common than I expected: finding a mate for a dog or cat in Nigeria basically means posting in a random Facebook group and hoping someone replies.

So I built the thing that didn't exist. Petmatch is a free, simple directory where you list your pet once, and nearby owners looking for the same thing find you and reach out directly. No agents taking a cut, no fees, no app to figure out, just a quick email sign in so you can manage your own listing later.